Military officials who have done tours in Afghanistan are outraged that brass would even suggest US troops are partly to blame for their own murders.

I would like to see a public affairs officer explain to the press where showing the bottom of your shoe to a Muslim or shaking with your left hand was legitimate grounds for murder, growled one US Army official.

They say their Muslim partners would still resent them even if they followed their Islamic protocols to the letter.

The cultural affronts excuse is a bunch of garbage, a senior US Army intelligence official told me. The Afghans that know were doing all this PC cultural sensitivity crap are laughing their asses off at our stupidity.

Explained the intelligence official: Theyre killing us because were infidels occupying Islamic lands. Its what the Koran and every imam over there is telling them, and no amount of cultural sensitivity is going to stop that or change the fact that were infidels. 